In a fire letter to Minister van Engelshoven, more than a thousand actors and directors ask to financially support the free theatre producers in the Corona crisis. Together, the free theatre producers provide 60% of the supply in Dutch theatres and theatres every year. They do so with their own investments and without subsidies. Through the measures taken in the fight against Corona
Fred Goessens has been dead, but is still alive. As uncompromising as ever. The Netherlands' most reliable actor makes an interim will after twenty-two years with Toneelgroep Amsterdam. 'I had shit on everything' This interview was published 10 years ago in TheaterMaker, the trade magazine for the theatre sector. As Fred Goessens is now leaving ITA, the company where he once...
In the trailer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which kicks off on 22 January, film images crumble into abstract shapes and colour patterns. It has to do, I understand, with the wonder of the irrepressible urge to make stories. Once, a cave dweller put a painted hand on the rock face. In the digital age, we conjure stories with coloured pixels. The...
There is sound; a notion of impotence; a programme without a head or tail; there is power, chatter, compassion; there is nothing but also a vista, blurred image full of action and opposition. Moreover, the language seems a bit overwrought here and there. Of course, incoherent babble can be cosy, or moving. Under circumstances, meaningfulness may be possible, but it will not...
This was our April fool's joke for 2016. Thanks for sharing! During renovation work at the Stadsbank van Lening building on Amsterdam's Oudezijds Voorburgwal, a manuscript of a work of poetry that has since been attributed by literary historians to Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) has recently turned up. It is a rough, unfinished version of a play entitled 'Alva' and is dated around...
That you wake up at night and there is a full-blooded hipster sitting at the foot of your bed. One of those whose beard has two points of rap, whose hair is in a messy bun and who has a tuft of hair bulging out of his right ear. This pretty much sums up my worst nightmare. Well struck, then, by Lisah makes Roozemoes, to...
It was a touching moment when director Cherry Duyns drove a frail Misha Mengelberg onto the stage on Tuesday 9 June, after the premiere of his opera Koeien (Cows). Dressed in a bright orange windbreaker and wearing a cap with an oversized visor, the recently turned eighty improviser and rudderless disruptor looked around uncomfortably: is this applause for me? Yet he visibly enjoyed himself and...
"Theo van Gogh tried so hard to be an enfant terrible that we almost forgot that he was one of the Netherlands' most creative and productive filmmakers." I wrote this for the GPD papers on 2 November 2004, after an editor called me with the terrible news of the filmmaker's violent death. Soon, that murder was exactly ten...
With paper, you never know ('0.3% of newspaper readers read the reviews on the art page'), and with TV it's always a bit of estimating and extrapolating too, but the internet is rock hard. We know how many times you read one of our pieces, and how long you lingered at our videos. Well: we were already proud last year, now we are well over 200,000
'Pearls' is an exhibition with the limitlessness, fantasy and dreamlike vistas that come with a fairy tale. Associations with the pearl roll in all directions. Those who wander around in 'Pearls' forget for a moment everything to do with sober everyday reality. Pearls appear everywhere. The artworks belonging to this exhibition are scattered among the fixed...
Door Wijbrand Schaap, Foto Joan Marcus Dat hebben wij dus niet. In Nederland. Zoveel goede acteurs van naam en faam om een complete Shakespearekomedie tot in de kleinste edelfiguratie met toppers te kunnen vullen. Ok, we komen een eind met onze Pierre Bokma’s, onze Gijs Scholten van Aschats, een Lineke Rijxman, Mariek Heebink en Ariane Schluter, en vlak Elsie de…
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